A Southeast Minnesota-Based Source for Edible Landscaping, Food Forest, and Permaculture Plants and Shrubs.
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**Edible landscaping: If you're going to landscape your property with plants, shrubs, and trees, why not use those that will provide you and your family with healthy food? **Grow your very own food forest! If you're not familiar with the food forest concept, there are many useful video resources on YouTube the can be found simply using the search term "food forest". Are you big on ambition, but short on space? A highly recommended YouTube channel is "The Gardening Channel with James Prigioni". On his channel, James produces excellent content and demonstrates how an abundance of food can be grown on just a one-ninth acre suburban backyard using food forest principles. Products found at The Berry Booth represent the understory, the shrub layer, the herbaceous layer, the root layer, the ground cover layer, and the vine layer; all the layers of a healthy food forest, except the overstory layer. **Most importantly, have more control over where your food comes from and ensure it's grown using healthy practices, all while loosening Big Ag's grip on our food supply.
Berry Plants
*NEW, more convenient, blueberry option for ease of planting in our region's naturally less-acidic soil* Growing blueberries can be quite challenging in this part of Minnesota, due to a more neutral to alkaline soil found in the area. This reality usually entails having to prepare your blueberry site with acidifying agents (e.g., sulfur, etc.) well before being able to safely put your plants in the ground. Sometimes, this prep period can take a year or more! We have come up with a strategy to help overcome this issue and help you get your blueberry plants in the ground quicker. Now being offered on this site are blueberry plants in pre-acidified potting soil, contained in large pulp-based pots. This will allow you to immediately drop blueberry plants, pot and all, straight into the ground. The large volume pots will allow your plant roots to comfortably grow throughout the acidic potting soil while the prepped surrounding soil can become properly acidified over the course of the growing season. Then, the following year, your now-established blueberry plant roots will be able to safely commence their growth and expansion beyond the pulp-based pot material into the newly acidified surrounding soil.
